#poet

I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#poetry #inspirational

I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#literature #love #poetry #relationship #spiritual-poetry

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been ↗

— Criss Jami

#cliche #discovery #great-men #greatness #journey

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#holy #philosopher #poet #sacred #men

...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost... ↗

— Mira Grant

#poetry #zombies #men

so easy to take leave from the scent from the hue simply to tuck a hand under one's head and fall asleep the wind will not awake one the bee will not caress one with its dark wings to give oneself to the earth so hugely as to become not anything and not anywhere ↗

— Halina Poswiatowska. Polish poet.

#poetry #polish #poswiatowska #inspirational

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#poetry #writing #inspirational

The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch ↗

— Barbara Botch

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What the world neglects, the Lord accepts. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#inspirational #poetry-love-spirituality #inspirational

…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best. ↗

— Hesiod

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